British food specialities!

British food specialities!

bubble & squeak

It is traditionally made ​​of mashed potatoes and green vegetables, usually cabbage or brussels sprouts,  which are mixed together and fried in a pan.

haggis

 

Haggis is a specialty of the scottish kitchen and consists of the stomach of a sheep that is filled with heart, liver, lung, kidney fat from the lamb, onions and oatmeal.

scones

Scones come from the British Isles and are made of wheat, barley or oat flour and baking powder, eggs and sweet cream. In Ireland and Scotland, they're called potato scones, which are made with mashed potatoes, milk and flour. In the United States scones often contain nuts or cranberries.

shepherd's pie

 

Shepherd's Pie is basically comprised of a lower and an upper layer. The bottom is made of minced meat, the upper is made of mashed potatoes and sometimes a little bit of cheese. Garlic, chopped carrots, peas or other vegetables and herbs are added to the meat.

apple crumble

Apple crumble is a popular genre of desserts from the English kitchen. It is bakedapples with crumbs. 

Yorkshire Pudding

The Yorkshire pudding is made ​​of flour, milk, eggs, fat, salt and pepper, parsley and nutmeg. The batter is poured in portions into small pie or muffin pans. The result is a hollow in the middle of the baked batter.

Welsh rarebit

 

It's made of ham, eggs, cheese, parsley, salt and pepper. All  ingredients, except the toast, are fried in the pan and after that they are placed on the toast. YOu can also use normal bread instead of the toast.

syllabub

 

Syllabub: White wine is flavored with lemon juice and zests of lemon and sweetened with sugar.Among this mass whipped cream is lifted. In addition to the white wine port wine or sherry is added. You can also add non-alcoholic ingredients like apple juice or fruit puree.












In no case I would try haggis from all of these things! 

Vampires

Vampires

There are many ways to show vampires. Generally they have the features that they live from blood of animals or humans and they have abnormally long teeth.  

In the middle ages they were shown as cruel, frightening and disgusting monsters. In the imagination of the people they only slept at night and were frightened of the sun, because they would have crumbeled to ash. Furthermore they mostly were men and bit the women. The people didn't want to be confronted with them and so they hung up garlic or they püushed a wooden pale into the body of the people from whoem they thought they were vampires.

On the other hand today they were shown as beautiful men and women which live from the blood of humans or if they vegetarians they live from the blood of animals. They aren't able to sleep, not on the day and not in the night! Different from the vampires in the middle ages, the vampires todayaren't afraid of the sun. Maybe that's why they are so pale?If you ask someone about vampires in these times he would certainly think of Edward! :D